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Friendship (and Nostalgia) Forever

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Russ Smith

Updated June 10, 2006 12:01 a.m. ET

And You Know You Should Be Glad By Bob Greene William Morrow, 325 pages, $24.95

Nearly 60 years old now, Bob Greene is best known as the bard of the baby-boom generation, having chronicled in hundreds of newspaper columns his age cohort's journey from college excess to workaday life, from unmarried self-absorption to parenthood.

For all his success, though, Mr. Greene's writing has been marked by a certain narcissism --...